PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY VEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1953 t . a FF ri tv j Ie t By HARLAND BRITZ T HE HOUSE Un-American Activities Committee is slated for another fateful session in Detroit this fall. So announced Michigan Red prober Kit Clardy last week. Rep. Clardy promised that at least 200 per- sons never publicly linked with Commun- ism will be named. This trip, the hearings will take on all the flavor of a Ringling show with complete radio and TV coverage. Fortunately at the time of the last hearings in Detroit in 1952, Sam Rayburn banned TV and radio. What * particularly interests us in Ann Arbor is Clardy's statement that the testi- mnoy will uncover Communist activity to some extent in schools and colleges. We im- mediately wonder whether any professors here will be persecuted in the same manner as was Prof. Byron Darling at Ohio State who refused to answer in committee wheth- er or not he was a Communist but who afterwards denied vigorously that he was a Red. Prof. Darling, who received his Ph.D. here at Ann Arbor in 1940, was fired from OSU because of his refusal to testify. If any Professor Darlings were to be turned up in Ann Arbor during the com- ing investigation, just what would be the reaction of the University and the faculty? The Michigan Alumnus, organ of the University Alumni Association in its current issue has printed an excellently prepared and carefully unbiased survey of 25 faculty members, asking each one what his attitude would be to one of his colleagues who might refuse to answer on grounds of the fifth amendment. Happily, the Alumnus reports that most of the professors questioned "would not pre- judge a colleague because he had refused to speak and had invoked the fifth amend- ment. 'Refusal by itself, offered one faculty member, 'is not grounds for action one way or another . . . Rights are intended to be used and their use is not grounded in ac- tion'." The Alumnus article concludes by claim- ing "there will be no political scarlet letter at Michigan. The faculty is alert and keenly aware of its responsibilities." There were minority reports to be sure. Some professors felt that refusal to ans- wer questions was ample grounds for the discharge. One said "A faculty member is duty bound to come clean. And if he refuses he has no place on the Michigan faculty." But the report claimed that in general the faculty questioned shared the view that the exercise of the fifth amend- ment is still a privilege and cannot be in itself a basis for expulsion from the fa- culty. The Alumnus article was not only well prepared but was extremely timely. And it gave hope that Michigan faculty members will neither turn their backs on their fel- low colleagues who may be maligned by shoddy testimony nor turn their campus into two armed camps. It is a testimony to the good sense of our faculty that so many realized that rights are not to be turned on and off at will. The Darling case was an example of a man who refused to testify on moral grounds and yet was proud to publicly admit that he was not a Communist. We may think-he was foolish for not making the statement in hearing, but this is beside the point. Ostracizing a man like Darling is the worst type of guilt by association. If the committee hits Michigan, it is hoped that our campus community will stick together in defense of rights that all of us enjoy. Pattern of History SALUTE the indomitable spirit of an indomitable people." A few days ago this statement was made by an intelligent and respected man. I am just young enough that certain hor- rifyingly vivid pictures of these same "in- domitable" people have not yet succumbed to the concentrated efforts of national brainwashers and history erasers. When I was five years old these "indomi- tables" annexed Austria. When I was six, they took over Czechoslovakia. Their op- ponents' outcrys were muzzled by threats of imprisonment, torture and economic ruin. A blitzkreig of only three weeks subdued Poland. Norway and Denmark were occupied -no resistance. Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg fell to the "indomitable." Two weeks be- fore my third grade teacher dismissed the class for summer vacation, they entered . Paris and a little later began a sea and air battle with Great Britain, By the time Russia was invaded a year later, Mrs. Murphy's fourth grade homeroom was competing for the prizes in Defense stampi contests and no one was shielding youth from the posters of "indomitables" kicking children and raping their mothers. Over milk and toast at breakfast we heard. of gas chambers, mass graves, lamp shades of.. human skin, glue and soap of ground bones. At night we woke up screaming of nightmares in which they were our bones. As the war progressed we stamped tin cans flat and collected our old clothes to send to the unconquerable British and when we pledged allegiance to the flag we thought of our Allies. Among those Allies were hearty, wholesome Russians awkward- +MU AT RACKHAM LECTURE HALL John Kollen,. pianist THE PROGRAM played by J Kollen would have delighted the hea ;t of the late Artur Schnabel. It consisted of Mozart's Sonata in C, K. 330, Brahms' Sonata in F minor,. op. 5, and Beethoven's Sonata in E-Flat, op. 31, no. 3. Mr. Kollen is a mu- sician and pianist of exceptional ability. The notes may not always have been there in the quantity and exactitude specified by the composers, but the musical understand- ingwas there, coupled with a clear projec- tion of the pianist's concept of the music.. Even when one disagreed with his inter- pretations, as I did at times, it was always evident thatshe had arrived at these inter- pretations thoughtfully and adhered to them consistently. There are, in addition, not many pianists with such ability to "sing" a melody and to control gradations of touch, from extreme legato to extreme staccato. This last quality was particularly evi- Aant ia -M^at a- V.0-_ A i4 46 ly bundled into heavy overcoats, driving the German from Stalingrad. Adlai Stevenson's toast to the "indomi- table Germans, a few days ago, is almost inconspicuous in July, 1953. Today it is the Germans who are hearty and wholesome and industrious, the Rus- sians who man the concentration camps and commit the wholesale murder and per-, haps my younger brother wakes up at night screaming of nightmares starring a beady eyed Malenkov. I do not wish to criticize the change of pace. However, I must admit confusion. When wars were fought for conquest of land, the victors emerged with this land and conquered nations were made, at least, tem- porarily impotent. But this is the jet age, the age of speed. There is no time to debate how long a conquered nation shall be subjugated. Within a few years of VE day, the world Is again divided into two camps. Ene- mies are allies and allies-bitter, hated adversaries. As George Orwell has noted: "Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merit but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage-torture, the use of hostages, forc- ed labor, mass. deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when committed by 'our side'." War, victory, ersing history and rewrit- ing atrocities has taken on an invariable pattern. "Christ, what are patterns for?" -Gayle Greene SIC + with dynamics, which seemed to result in a Romanticized conception of classic music.*"I was somehow reminded of an organist unable to stop tampering with the swell pedal. Otherwise, the playing was excellent, with lovely phrasing and, we note thankfully, the slow movement played at the proper tempo-not too slow, in other words. The Brahms is an early work, with many traits of the composer's maturity already apparent. The melodic materials are uneven at times, but it is an impressive and strik- ing work, nevertheless. It is also very long, being almost the only five movement piano sonata within my limited knowledge. Mr. Kollen worked heroically with it, and came through with banners flying. He managed to sustain the line of the long slow movement without allowing the listener's attention to drop once. The rest of the sonata was played just as successfully. The Beethoven Sonata which concluded the recital is one of my favorites. It's a rather curious niece. somewhat removed MATTEROF FACT By STEWART ALSOP BERLIN-Lavrenty Beria was murdered in Berlin. He is unquestionably the most prominent victim of the revolution in East- ern Germany which started in the Soviet sector of Berlin. But viewed from Berlin, Beria's fate takes on an added, special mean- ing- Among all the puppet rulers and procon- suls everywhere in the Soviet Empire, there must now be a terrible fear and insecurity. It was precisely such fear and insecurity within the German Communist regime which three weeks ago led to the East German re- volution. Take, for example, the present situation of Wilhelm Zaisser, the East Ger- man Secret Police Chief, famous for his polished boots and his utter ruthlessness. Like almost every satellite Secret Police Chief, Zaisser is accounted a Beria man. There are now widespread reports here that Soviet proconsul Smeyenov has returned from Moscow to Berlin with orders to send Zaisser the way of Beria. The next victim may be, instead, the aged Pieck, the bril- liant, evil Ulbricht, the oily turncoat Grote- wohl-or even Smeyenov himself who has also been accounted a Beria man. Whoever may be next, in every satellite state, people must be asking who is safe and who is doom- ed, who really has power and who has none. When people begin asking such questions, a time of great danger has come for any police state. It was because people began asking such questions that the Soviet zone of Germany has experienced a revolution. It is important to understand the na- ture of this revolution. It was, to start with, a genuine revolution. Its objective was to seize power, not from the Soviets but from the German Communist re- gime. Within the limits of this objective, the revolution succeeded. On June 17, in city after city, the writ of the Communist regime simply ceased to run. Premier Grotewohl has himself admited, in an un- guarded moment, that power was restored to the regime only thanks to "Our Rus- sian Brothers"-for which read Soviet tanks and troops. The oddest aspect of this revolution was that it precisely followed the pattern which Marx and Engels used fondly to forecast- and which (except perhaps more than eighty years ago, at the time of the Paris com- mune) never really happened on earth, un- til last month. Marx and Engels set two main conditions for a "revolutionary situa- tion." One was that the lot of the oppressed workers should become intolerable. The second was that their oppressors should be- come confused and indecisive. In East Ger- many, the first condition has existed for years. The second condition was met only last month when, on June 11, the whole pol- icy of the German Communist puppet re- gime was suddenly thrown into reverse by the Kremlin. The new policy of "easement for the populace" was accompanied by breast-beating confessions of cardinal sins by the puppet rulers, and insecurity, fear, confusion and indecision everywhere within the regime. * * * T HUS, AS THE more intellectual workers leaders are fond of pointing out, a "re- volutionary situation" was created. Is it not possible that the fear and uncertainty fol- lowing on the purging of Beria will create a similar "revolutionary situation" through- out the whole Soviet Empire? As far as an actual seizure of power is concerned, the answer is almost certain. ly found in the eperience of East Ger- many. Many workers' leaders, themselves devout Marxists, had the monumental naivete to expect the revolutionary Rus- sians to applaud and approve their suc- cessful application of Marxist-Leninist principles. Instead, of course, the Red army crushed the uprisings in a matter of hours. The Red army can do the same job again anywhere in the Soviet Em- pire at any time. There should be no il- lusions on this score. Yet the fact that the Red army had to do the job in Ger- many is itself enormously significant. The East German uprising proved to the So- viets the worthlessness in a moment of crisis of their local instruments of power, the German "peoples' police," and the "peoples' army." If the job has to be done again in Ger- many, it will again have to be done by the Red army-and what is true of Germany is almost certainly true elsewhere. As this is written, the Kremlin is still attempting to shore up its artificial puppet regimes by continuing the policy of "easement for the populace." But here in Germany, at least, the workers' appetite has grown by what it has fed on. Already, the word is being pass- ed in the factories, "again in August." The only alternative to a policy of ap- peasement is a policy of brutal repression- and the arrest of Beria may be the signal for just such a policy. But this policy will mean the use of the Red Army as a naked instrument of Soviet power throughout the Soviet Empire. This will strain the re- sources even of the huge Red army to the utmost-and this at a time of a savage in- ternal convulsion within the Kremlin. In this situation i i snot inconnivaeh that "I Want You To Shake Hands With- Say, What's Wrong With You Guys Anyhow?" c , = c DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND WITH DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-C. D. Jackson, Ike's dynamic psychological warfare adviser, deserves chief credit for pushing through the $15,000,000 food gift to East Germany which has put Moscow on the spot. Cer- tain State Department officials also deserve credit. But the peculiar thing is that for several weeks they couldn't get any action at the top. That was why the food offer was not made at the height of the East Berlin restlessness. Secretary of State Dulles, asked at a press conference over a week ago whether he had considered sending food to East Berliners, said no. He seemed puzzled at the question as if the idea had never crossed his mind though the food plan had been hammered in this column and others for three weeks. However, Dulles promptly sent a cable to U.S. High Commissioner Conant in Germany asking what he thought of the idea and got back a favorable reply. Meanwhile, in the White House, the food plan for East Germany had got sidetracked by two things: 1. An attempt to get a much wider authorization for the President to use surplus food in any area in any amount and at any time; and 2. A piece of political throat cutting aimed at Senator Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat by his Republican rival Congressman Walter Judd also of Minnesota and an old freind of Ike's who plans to run against Humphrey next year. This is what made Democratic Senators sore, made them accuse the administration of playing politics with foreign policy. As early as last January, Humphrey began proposing that U.S. farm surpluses be sent to have-not nations. On June 8, Senator Humphrey after securing White House approval introduced a bill to that end. Three weeks later the White House pulled the rug out from under Humphrey and withdrew its support. Then it submitted vir- tually the same identical word-for-word bill as Humphrey's but under Republican sponsorship and with no limits on time or spending. What happened was that when Congressman Judd heard that his Democratic rival might get credit for solving the farm-surplus prob- lem, he phoned the White House in a lather and demanded that the Humphrey bill be stopped. KNOWLAND SAYS NO IRONY IS THAT THE administration had actually helped Humph- rey draft his bill. This was brought out behind closed doors of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as it was about to approve the Humphrey amendment unanimously. Just before the vote, Califor- nia's Senator Bill Knowland, acting majority leader, walked in. Senators exhibit the written transcript as proof of what happened. "It seems to me, I having just come in and this perhaps being a desirable amendment," Knowland observed, "it seems to me that it is rather far-reaching . . . Before it actually goes into the bill, even on a tentative basis, I would like to have the judgment of the Treasury Department and the Commodity Credit Corporation and perhaps the agriculture people on this, because this is of considerable importance, and I do not think we ought to act too hastily. This is the first time I have seen this particular language and I do not think we ought to put it into the bill until we have at least had a chance to study it a bit and have some testimony." However Tyler Wood, representing the Mutual Security Agency at the closed-door meeting, spoke up: "I believe, Senator Knowland, our people discussed this, when they were asked to draft it, quite fully with the Bureau of the Budget, the Agricul- ture Department, I believe-and, I know-the State Department; and I believe the Treasury Department was also consulted. I could check on that." "I wish you would," suggested Knowland. Wood then left the room to telephone the various agencies. He returned a few minutes later and announced: "Mr. Chairman, I find out that this language has been thoroughly checked and agreed by all the departments mentioned." * * * * THE AMAZED AIKEN DESPITE THIS, the White House promised Judd to block the Humphrey amendment. So, when it came up for a Senate vote three weeks later, Agriculture chairman George Aiken, Vermont Re- publican, made the amazing statement: "I have had (from the White House) this afternoon a communication to the effect that if the senator from Minnesota undertook to give any impression that they had approved this amendment, that definitely is not so." Aiken then offered an amendment in behalf of the White House. With two exceptions-no limitation on time or money-it was almost word-for-word what Humphrey had already introduced. Aiken could- n't believe it. The administration hadn't even gone to the trouble of changing Humphrey's wording. When the Minnesota Senator pointed this out, the amazed Aiken asked: "Does theSenator from Minnesota understand why he received a copy of the President's bill, which I introduced to- day, over three weeks before the White House cleared the bill and before it was sent to the Senator from Vermont?" "I never knew that I had a pipeline into the White House with such good connections," laughed Humphrey. Afterward, when Aiken learned all the facts, he apologized. WASHINGTON WHIRL _____: ON THE The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University t of Michigan for which the Michigan1 Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent ina TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3510 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceeding publication (be- fore 11 a.m. on Saturday). WEDNESDAY, JULY, 15, 1953 1 VOL. LXIII, No. 100 Ntices President and Mrs. Harlan Hatchert cordially invite members of the sum- mer faculty to an informal reception honoring the visiting faculty on Fri-r day, the seventeenth of July, from eight until ten o'clock, in the Michigan League. President and Mrs. Hatcher invitec all summer session students to an in- formal reception at the Michigan LeagueI Building on July 16 from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.1 Tickets are available at the Lydia Mendelssohn box office for the remain- ing plays in the Department of Speech summer series: The Country Girl and Pygmalion, $1.20 - 90c - 60c; The Tales of Hoffmann, produced with the School of Music, $1.50 - $1.20 - 90c. Box office open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A representative from the San Diego Public Schools will be at the Office of the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Building, on Wednes- day, July 15, at 3:00 p.m. and will be glad to meet candidates interested in elementary positions for the coming year. Students, College of Engineering: The final day for Dropping Courses Without Record will be Friday, July 17. A course nfay be dropped only with the permission of the classifier after con- ference with the instructor. PersonnelPositions with the Y.W.C.A. The Y.W.C.A. has several fine positions as program directors in various loca- tions throughout the country. For fur- ther information regarding these and other personnel positions with the Y.W.C.A., please contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Building, or call extension 2614, Requests have beenreceived from To- ledo, Ohio, for teachers of high school English, mathematics, music, and a male librarian. Interested candidates should contact either the Bureau of Appointments, Ext. 489, of Superin- tendent Bowsher. A request from a Michigan Junior College for a man to teach General En- gineering has been received. Interested candidates should contact the Bureau of Appointments, 31511 Ext. 489. Schools of Education, Music, Natural Resources and Public Health. Students, who received marks of I, X, or "no re- ports" at the end of their last semes- ter or summer session of attendance, will receive a grade of "E" in the course or courses unless this work is made up by July 22. Students, wishing an ex- tension of time beyond this date in or- der to make up this work, should file a petition,aaddressed to the appropriate official in their school, with Room 1513 Administration Building, where it will be transmitted. PERSONNEL REQUESTS The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., Baltimore, Md., has opening for Civil Engineers in their Engineering Depart- ment. August graduates are eligible to apply. For applications, appointments, and aditional Information about these and other openings, contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Bldg., Ext. 371. ]Lectures WEDNESDAY, JUL Y15 Symposium on X-Ray Diffraction. 1400 Chemistry Building. "Fourier Transformation and X-Ray Diffraction by Crystals," P. P. Ewald, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 9:00 a.m.; "Ex- perimental Studies of Crystal Struc- tures: Methods for Complex Structures, as Applied to HF and HCN," W. N. Lips- comb, University of Minnesota, 10:00 a.m. Summer Education Conferece. Morn- ,ing: "Practical Approaches to School- District Reorganization"-a panel, 9:00 a.m., 268 Business Administration Buid- ing; "Art in the Curriculum"-a panel; 10:00 a.m., Schorling Auditorium, Uni- versity High School. Afternoon: Physical Education Con- ference, "Audio-visual Aids in the Physical Education Program," Theo- dore P. Banks, President of the Athletic Institute, 2:00 p.m.. 1022 University High School. Linguistic Luncheon Meeting. "Seseo, Ceceo and Andalusian Spanish," Aure- lio M. Espinosa, Jr., Professor of Span- ish, Stanford University. 12:10 p.m., dining room, Michigan League. Symposium on Astrophysics. 1400 Chemistry Building. "Galaxies: Their Composition and Structure," Walter Baade, Mt. Wilson and Palomar Obser- vatories, 2:00 p.m. "General Ideas about Turbulence and Statistical Hydodynam- ics," G. K. Batchelor, University of Cambridge, England, 3:30 p.m. speech Assembly. "Voice-Operated De- vices," Gordon E. Peterson, Bell Tele- phone Laboratory. 3:00 p.m. Rackham Amphitheater. Lecture, auspices of Department of Civil Engineering. "The Present Status of Blast Resistant Structural Design," N. M. Newmark, Research Professor of Civil Engineering. University of Illinois. 4:00 p.m., 311 West Engineering Build- ing. Radiation Biology Symposium. "Tar- get Action and Indirect Action of Radi- ation on Enzyme Molecules," Henry Eyring, Dean, Graduate School, Univer- sity of Utah. 8:00 p.m., 1300 Chemistry Building. Popular Arts in America. Presentation of Katherine Brush's short story "Night Club" as a play, radio play, and tele- vision demonstration. 8:00 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Sociedad Hispanica. A lecture in Spanish on the subject "Andanzas folk- loricas por Espana" will be given by Pro- fessor Aurelio M. Espinosa, Jr., of Stan- ford University, Visiting Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, tial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music at a:30 p.m. Thursday evening, July 16, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. It will in- clude the works of Bach, Mozart, Roy Harris, Brahms and Chopin. Miss Ul- rich is a pupil of Mr. Brikman: Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Hall. Popular Art in America (June 30 -August 7); California Water Color So- ciety (July 1-August 1). 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays; 2 to 5 p.m. on Sun- days. The public is invited. General Library. Best sellers of the twentieth century. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Gill- man Collection of Antiques of Palestine. Museums Building, rotunda exhibit. Steps in the preparation of ethnolo- gical dioramas. Michigan HistoricalCollections, Mi- chigan, year-round vacation land. Clements Library. The good, the bad, the popular. Law Library. Elizabeth II and her em- pire. Architecture Building. Michigan Chil- dren's Art Exhibition. Events Today Library Science Department is invited to a reception at Clements Library 4-5:30 p.m. Popular Arts in America will present four versions of Katherine Brush's Night Club in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre at 8:00 a.m. Professor Clarlbel Baird will read a cut version of the short story. Play Production will stage the one act play version. The Radio De- partment will present it as a radio drama. The Television Department will demonstrate the techniques necessary in the television version. Seats are re- served, but no admission will be charged. Two reserved seats per per- son can be obtained at the Lydia Mn- delssohn box office, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. La p'tite causette meets today from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the wing of the north room of the Michigan Union cafeteria. All students and Faculty members interested in speaking or learning to speak French in a friendly atmosphere are cordially invited. Speech Clinic Open House, 4:00 p rn., 1007 East Huron Street. The Presbyterian Summer Student Fellowship will meet at 8 p.m. in the Lewis Room of the Presbyterian Church for Bible Study. The study will center around Isaiah 40-55, using chapter IV of "The Unfolding Drama of the -Bi- ble" by Bernhard Anderson. Coming Events Thursday Lunch Discussion at Lane Hail, 12:15 noon. Bernard Pagel, doc- toral candidate in astronomy at the University of Cambridge, England, re- source person. Topic: "Distance Out of This World" in language the average student understands. Call reservations to 3-1511,extension 2851. There will be a meeting of the Grad- uate Student Council on Thursday, July 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the East Confer- ence Room of Rackham Building. Summer session French Club. Meet- ing Thursday, July 16, at 8:00 p.m...in the Michigan League to celebrate the French National Holiday. Popular French songs; charades; dancing. All students and faculty members inter- ested are cordially invited. Classical Studies Coffee Hour. Thrs- day, July 16, 4:00 p.m., in the West Con- ference Room of the Rackham Building Students of the department and all others who are interested in the Claa- sics are cordially invited. Next week the Department of Speech will present Clifford Odets' new Broad- way success, The Country Girl. This ex- citing drama of the back-stage life of an outstanding actor and his wife will be directed by Monroe Lippman, chairman of the Department of Theatre and Speech at Tulane University and guest director this summer in the Uni- versity of Michigan Department of Speech. The Country Girl opens Wednesday night, July 22 at 8:00 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre and plays through Saturday night, July 25. THERE ARE TWO times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can. --Mark Twain "nor I I .' I 0 4f +. SixtyThird Year Edited and managed by students 1 the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications, Editorial Staff Harland Britz. .......Managing Editor Dick Lewis...........Sports Editor Becky Conrad......... Night Editor Gayle Greene. ........,Night Editor Pat Roelofs............... Night Editor Fran Sheldon...........Night Editor Business Staff Bob Miller Business Manager Dick Alstrom ....eCirculation Manager Dick Nyberg...... .Finance Manager Jessica Tanner.. Advertising Associate Bob Kovacs... Advertising Associate The Senate Electioons Committee has voted another $167,000 to 8 p.m., in the East Conference Room